NEET BIOLOGY

BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION

KINGDOM FUNGI

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Mushrooms that are macroscopic are usually included in the mushroom division ____
A
Ascomycotina
B
Deuteromycotina
C
Basidiomycotina
D
Zygomycotina
E
Myxomycotina
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Macroscopic fungi such as morels, mushrooms, puffballs, and the cultivated agarics available in grocery stores represent only a small fraction of the diversity in the kingdom Fungi.

Detailed explanation-2: -Members are known as basidiomycetes. More specifically, Basidiomycota includes these groups: mushrooms, puffballs, stinkhorns, bracket fungi, other polypores, jelly fungi, boletes, chanterelles, earth stars, smuts, bunts, rusts, mirror yeasts, and Cryptococcus, the human pathogenic yeast.

Detailed explanation-3: -Basidiomycetes is a group of higher fungi that have septate hyphae and spores borne on a basidium. Trichoderma and Saccharomyces does not belong Class-Basidiomycetes.

Detailed explanation-4: -In addition to the well-known macroscopic fungi (such as mushrooms and molds), many unicellular yeasts and spores of macroscopic fungi are microscopic. For this reason, fungi are included within the field of microbiology. Fungi are important to humans in a variety of ways.

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